I guess I’m getting too old for all this new internet marketing technology because now I don’t even know the difference between “up” and “down.”
Maybe you can help me out.
In the last few days I have received many sales pitches telling me about a product that started at just $0.10 and went up ten cents every time someone bought it.
Well, I finally got curious to check it out and discovered that I had to give them my email information to read about this product.
He did that and then read the sales page with the price “never going to be lower than it is now” of $6.80.
Now, I didn’t want the product for reasons I’ll explain in a minute, but I left the page open while I went to do other things.
A couple of hours later I went back to the sales page and made an update. (They said don’t do that because my fixed price would go away and I would have to pay the new “it’s never going to be lower than it is now” of $7.10.
Well, they weren’t making much money, but they made 30 cents in 2 hours.
Now this is where I started to get confused about up and down…
This morning I received an email thanking me for reviewing the product and reminding me that if I hadn’t purchased the product yet, “The price goes up with the sale and is never going to
to be shorter than he is now…”
As I was curious to know how the sales were going, I clicked on the link and found the new price of…
$4.80.
Now I have a bachelor’s degree in math and I thought I knew how to add. So someone please tell me: did the addition rules change when I wasn’t looking?
Nope?
So how is $4.80 higher than $7.10?
Thinking there is a good reason why $4.80 is higher than $7.10, I assumed it had to do with how I got to the page with the price (like different sellers). So I went back to last night’s page, re-entered my email information and saw the new $4.80 amount on that page “never going to be lower than it is right now.”
I guess I’m too old to understand which way is “up”, but if you do, please help me.
I hope you laughed at the true story above and learned something, but even if you didn’t, there is a lesson to be learned about why I didn’t buy the product above.
The product was for some pre-built web pages that were already generating revenue for the owner. And the sales page asked if he wanted to learn how to make money doing nothing.
There was proof of income and the owner was selling exact copies of 3 of these income producing sites.
Imagine, not having to choose a niche, not having to select keywords, not having to source content, not having to optimize for search engines and not having to build the page and be able to earn income just by placing copy on your pages. on your site.
It sounds too good to be true?
Well, it is.
Sure his pages may be making him some money and he’s getting his traffic from search engines, but what’s going to happen when there are 68, 71 or 48 exact copies of his pages? Not everyone can be in the top 10, 20, 30, or even 40 sites listed for a search.
The truth is that we are all lazy and would like to earn money without working and there are many places that offer you the opportunity to do so.
But remember, when something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And whether the price goes up, down or stays constant, accepting a false promise at any price is too costly.
For your success,
Suzanne